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The "Today I did something to my car" thread
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Ignition barrel gone in the aul caddy second time
its a lot of hassle having to start up your motor with a wire from the battery straight to the starter and you do get funny looks when its done outside your local centra haha!! getting a button put in it for it to start its more convenient and how cool is a button start aul caddy and its a cheaper and longer lasting fix 
Reminded me when I got some funny looks when I was jumpstarting me own car. Battery is in the boot and because of the way the car was parked, i could only jump it from the battery terminal under the bonnet, which is located at the back of the block across a large engine bay.
Jump leads were about 1.5 feet too short, so got 3 sets of vice grips, clamped them all together off each other in series and attached them to the battery terminal. Current flowed through them no problem, success! :pac:0 -
I had to do that with a polo I had. You can actually splice into the starter from the leads that go to the ignition barrel. I got a pic here somewhere if you want it?Ignition barrel gone in the aul caddy second time its a lot of hassle having to start up your motor with a wire from the battery straight to the starter and you do get funny looks when its done outside your local centra haha!! getting a button put in it for it to start its more convenient and how cool is a button start aul caddy and its a cheaper and longer lasting fix 0 -
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challengemaster wrote: »What'd it fail on, lights?
Nah, few little bits and pieces. One shock leaking.
It's silly some of the things on it, but I'd say about three hours and I'd have it ready to go
Just funny to see two pages. 0 -
Limerick man wrote: »Nah, few little bits and pieces. One shock leaking.
It's silly some of the things on it, but I'd say about three hours and I'd have it ready to go Just funny to see two pages.
When I got the MPS, my mechanic told me that one of my rear shocks was leaking before I went for the NCT and it passed 0 -
einheisserschre wrote: »When I got the MPS, my mechanic told me that one of my rear shocks was leaking before I went for the NCT and it passed
I had the shock the wheel of yesterday cleaning an abs sensor and it wasn't leaking >.>0 -
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I'd a great day yesterday, I was left to my own devices for most of it.
Fitted a reverse parking sensor kit, changed the brake fluid, put in new blue tint headlight blubs and replaced the exhaust manifold gasket. There were a few good sized cracks in it so it was starting to get quite loud when I was accelerating.0 -
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ShadowHearth wrote: »it fecking is! havent seen such bad rain in awile. car will get washed by it anyway! WOOT!
I had the wheels done and I felt sorry for the rest of the car so I just got soaked washing it! At least it's clean now.....until I drive out the gate!0 -
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challengemaster wrote: »I'm tempted to just wash mine in the rain, hasn't got a wash in a month...
Go for it! Best thing is you don't have to worry about doing 1 panel at a time like when the sun is out or drying it/wet waxing it afterwards 0 -
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einheisserschre wrote: »Go for it! Best thing is you don't have to worry about doing 1 panel at a time like when the sun is out or drying it/wet waxing it afterwards
Ah, but see, thn I'd get cold and wet, and probably get a chest infection from it cos I always fecking do. :mad:
also don't have any wax you can apply when wet...0 -
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challengemaster wrote: »I'm tempted to just wash mine in the rain, hasn't got a wash in a month...
We should get used to doing that with all this talk of water charges
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Bora - Front Strut Mounts
25 mins per side
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7mm hex
22 mm spanner
21 mm offset ring spanner
Top strut nut from a 92-97 Passsat
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- Working with all wheels initially on the ground
- plastic cap off
- Top nut off using hex and 21mm, remove collar
- Lower nut off using 21mm spark plug socket, 22mm spanner and 7mm hex as per pic
- apply Passat nut and tighhten
- wheel off the ground and push down on suspension
- work mount off top of strut, replace with new
- locate mount and reapply load
- remove passat part as per above method
- reapply originals
- thnx to the uk-mkivs.net people
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Washed the old girl yesterday.
On the plus side, it was in the underground carpark so the wet day didn't really effect things.
On the down side, it was in the underground carpark where there's so hoses, so had to carry down (about 40 meter walk and two flights of stairs) two 20 litre wash buckets, all the washing rags and bottles, and a 50L bin full of water to rinse it
Turned out beautiful though.0 -
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